Question

Choose one of the following technological advances listed below, and describe how it has improved or changed your life.

1. Online Shopping
2. Smart Phones
3. Social Media
4. Apps

Answer 1

smartphones

how smartphones improve your life:

• Good quality cameras
• Time-saving
• the convenience of information access
• Change how we think
• Keeping you safe(GPS, map services)

how smartphones change your life

• Addiction:

Smartphones help their users escape from reality, much like a drug. Addictive in nature, they open the window to simple, colorful and easy to manipulate the digital world. Thus, addiction to smartphones can separate us from our friends and family. Smartphone addiction can be understood as a dependence syndrome. It can be considered a form of technology addiction marked by compulsive use of technology that can lead to significant impairment in various domains of one’s life, including personal, academic and professional.

• Constantly checking phone at regular intervals for no reason
• The thought of losing the device makes one anxious or restless
• A decline in performance at work or at school
• Increased dependence on smartphones
• Physical symptoms including digital eye strain and text neck
• Avoiding any social interaction in favor of using a smartphone
• Increase in distraction due to constant messages or use of smart apps

• Internet :

approximate 3.2 billion people are now using the internet. The average time we spend on our mobile devices daily is 3 hours and 40 minutes and that amount of time does not include the time we spend doing actual phone calls.90% percent of the time we spend on our mobile devices we spend on apps.

• impact on society:

1. Smartphones create new dimensions for business.
2. Smartphones provide a unique way to improve the quality of education. The use of smartphones has become a part of life for every student.
3. According to surveys, more than 10 million users in the USA use Smartphone to search for health information and facilities. 27% of users use smartphones for online activities.
4. Smartphones are said to reduce stress in a busy work life.
5. Social life has been drastically changed with the introduction of smartphones and this domain has encountered most of the impact from the use of smartphones. Smartphones play an important role in the integration process of people with special needs, elderly age and some sort of disabilities.